Title "Stroll" 2019-2020

[jonnygrunter]

Since the start of last season, we've played 55 league games, won 46, drawn 8 and lost 1 by a couple of millimetres. We've taken 76 points from the last 78. We are unbeaten at home since 2017. We are strengthening the squad in January. It's only our collective paranoia from years of hurt and yearning that is blinding us from the logical conclusion of those stats.

Amen brother

[Saveloy]

great post

It is a great post but my gut doesn't feel it. Don't reckon we'll lose more than 1 or 2 but I fear too many draws and City going on a run. The stats suggest different but I suppose I am paranoid.

[Norbs]

It is a great post but my gut doesn't feel it. Don't reckon we'll lose more than 1 or 2 but I fear too many draws and City going on a run. The stats suggest different but I suppose I am paranoid.

You're paranoid

[BobTheCharmer]

It is a great post but my gut doesn't feel it. Don't reckon we'll lose more than 1 or 2 but I fear too many draws and City going on a run. The stats suggest different but I suppose I am paranoid.

I hear you. If our margins of victory were more than by one goal and we looked solid at the back I would be extremely confident. But a dodgy var call, opposition taking their chances or a worldie and our wins could easily turn to draws or losses despite playing exactly the same. It's the 30 years which have been excruciating that are on my mind. I'm happy to go with the stats and the believers though!

[dom9]

I guess if you're pessimistically inclined, we're on the run of a lifetime.

No LFC team in history has had a run of results like it. So it will end at some point. Only Chelsea and Arsenal have ever strung together longer unbeaten runs in the league, and we've got another 15 matches to get to Arsenal's tally.

When will we lose? What will be the effect on subsequent results? Will the end of the season come in time if there is a drop off in form?

Based on the mentality of this team, I'm pretty confident that when the next result does go against us, we'll bounce pretty much straight away and carry on where we left off.

[Buzzo]

I guess if you're pessimistically inclined, we're on the run of a lifetime.

No LFC team in history has had a run of results like it. So it will end at some point. Only Chelsea and Arsenal have ever strung together longer unbeaten runs in the league, and we've got another 15 matches to get to Arsenal's tally.

When will than happen? What will be the effect on subsequent results? Will the end of the season come in time?

Based on the mentality of this team, I'm pretty confident that when the next result does go against us, we'll bounce pretty much straight away and carry on where we left off.

Exactly, we lost to Napoli and bounced back immediately.

It’s the fans that are nervous, and without any real reason. History doesn’t actually effect performance, the journey of this team has been year on year progression to this point of almost perfection.

The current team genuinely seem to look at a match, win it, move on to the next.

In terms of a calendar year of league results we must have produced the best in history? One defeat and what, 4 draws?

I’m at a point now where I am pretty confident we are going to win the League. And am enjoying the ride. Will we **** it up??? There’s a small chance but I’d be surprised.

[Mark79]

Last season we lost a league game to our title rivals and responded with 14 wins and 4 draws.

We had a nightmare CL Final in 2018 and came back again to win it the next year.

The mentality of this team has already been proven. Losing a league game (if it happens) is not going to kill them.

[Irishnev]

From the BBC - Dejan, Matip, Fab and Ox not back this year......CBs thin on the ground

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will miss at least the Premier League leaders' next two games with ankle ligament damage.

The England midfielder, 26, was forced off during Saturday's Club World Cup final, returning later to celebrate the 1-0 victory over Flamengo on crutches.

Oxlade-Chamberlain missed almost all of the 2018-19 season with a knee injury.

"We have to see how quick it can settle," said Klopp, whose side face second-placed Leicester on 26 December.

"It can take a while, or it can be quicker."

Klopp said there was "no chance" Oxlade-Chamberlain could make Thursday's match at the King Power Stadium (20:00 GMT kick-off). Liverpool then host Wolves on Sunday (16:30) in what will be their ninth game of a packed December.

The German also confirmed three other injured players - midfielder Fabinho and defenders Dejan Lovren and Joel Matip - will also not play again this year.

The Club World Cup was the second trophy Liverpool - who are 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League with a game in hand - have won this season, after they beat Chelsea on penalties to win the Uefa Super Cup in August.

They also won last season's Champions League with a 2-0 win over Tottenham in the final on 1 June.

ADVERTISEMENT
"We have developed at playing in finals. You get used to the excitement and still doing the right things. We have matured," added 52-year-old Klopp, whose side had been beaten in three finals before victory over Spurs in Madrid.

"We went there to Qatar to achieve something special. We did that, it felt brilliant. We went home, had a proper sleep and now we prepare for Leicester."

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

But we haven't had any injuries.

That's why we're 11 points clear of City with a game in hand.

We've been so lucky.

[BillobShaisley]

Out till the end of the year is not as bad as it might at first seem. Do we have any ETA for their return to fitness. Is that a week or 6 months, especially for the CB's!

[red g]

But we haven't had any injuries.

That's why we're 11 points clear of City with a game in hand.

We've been so lucky.

As our front 3 have not been injured, It seems we haven't had any major injuries according to the majority of media and my mates!

[Fuzzy]

Althoug Salah was injured too

[greenturnip]

It's funny - in the same way I don't listen to any political news at the moment because we have a Cnut as PM, I never listen to any media opinions on LFC (apart from TAW/The Athletic). It's much better for my blood pressure...
Happy Holidays!!

[RedReet]

I can't see any way we can blow the title, however after a quiz in work today, I was looking at the 2005 final.

I still can't believe we were 3-0 down to this team and still won:

GK 1 Brazil Dida
RB 2 Brazil Cafu
CB 31 Netherlands Jaap Stam
CB 13 Italy Alessandro Nesta
LB 3 Italy Paolo Maldini (c)
DM 21 Italy Andrea Pirlo
RM 8 Italy Gennaro Gattuso
LM 20 Netherlands Clarence Seedorf
AM 22 Brazil Kaká
CF 7 Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko
CF 11 Argentina Hernán Crespo

It definitely was a reminder that anything can happen...

[Cormack74]

What's up with Matip, it feels like he's been out since about the beginning of September - maybe he has?